SAT scores show <5% of Paterson high school students ready for college

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<p>"Just 26 of the 598 high school students in Paterson [NJ] Public Schools who took the SAT tests this year had scores that reached the college and career readiness benchmark, according to statistics released by city education officials. …</p>

<p>‘That scares me immensely,’ said school board member Jonathan Hodges …‘what are we graduating them to do? … We don’t have the factory jobs that we’re used to.’"</p>

<p>Familiar old news.</p>

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<p>The public school system is so awful to be honest and this statistic does not surprise me in the least.</p>